GCP Jobs in Kent

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Kent requiring GCP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited GCP over the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 74 67
Rank change year-on-year +12 -7 -19
Permanent jobs citing GCP 9 29 35
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 1.09% 1.92% 3.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.52% 5.94% 9.07%
Number of salaries quoted 5 18 6
10th Percentile £56,000 £47,375 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,438 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £71,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.41% +9.23% -11.86%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,188 £70,000
90th Percentile - £95,750 £96,250
South East median annual salary £60,000 £61,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -1.64% -12.86% -

All Cloud Skills
Kent

GCP falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Kent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 138 488 386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 16.67% 32.23% 35.06%
Number of salaries quoted 102 418 221
10th Percentile £27,775 £26,775 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £29,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - +11.76% -5.56%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £83,625 £72,250 £72,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

GCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

Job postings citing GCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Kent.

Job vacancy trend for GCP in Kent

GCP
Salary Trend in Kent

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing GCP in Kent.

Salary trend for GCP in Kent

GCP
Salary Histogram in Kent

Salary distribution for jobs citing GCP in Kent over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Salary histogram for GCP in Kent

GCP
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GCP within the Kent region over the 6 months to 19 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Maidstone +21 4 £70,000 - 2
Tunbridge Wells +9 1 - -
Dartford - 1 £55,000 - 1
GCP
South East

GCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) AWS
2 5 (55.56%) Azure
3 4 (44.44%) Serverless
4 3 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (11.11%) AWS IoT
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) Broadband
2 1 (11.11%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 3 (33.33%) Redis
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Bitbucket
1 1 (11.11%) Cucumber
1 1 (11.11%) GitLab
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
1 1 (11.11%) Maven
1 1 (11.11%) Selenium
1 1 (11.11%) SonarQube
1 1 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Senior
2 5 (55.56%) Software Engineer
3 3 (33.33%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 3 (33.33%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Backend Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Developer
4 1 (11.11%) IoT Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) GraphQL
1 3 (33.33%) Node.js
2 1 (11.11%) CSS
2 1 (11.11%) Hibernate
2 1 (11.11%) HTML
2 1 (11.11%) JPA
2 1 (11.11%) Kafka
2 1 (11.11%) React
2 1 (11.11%) Redux
2 1 (11.11%) Spring
2 1 (11.11%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (11.11%) IoT
2 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
1 5 (55.56%) Software Engineering
2 4 (44.44%) Agile
2 4 (44.44%) Clean Code
2 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (33.33%) Creative Thinking
3 3 (33.33%) Data Science
3 3 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 3 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 3 (33.33%) Microservices
3 3 (33.33%) Performance Metrics
3 3 (33.33%) Personalization
4 2 (22.22%) DevOps
5 1 (11.11%) Analytics
5 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (11.11%) CQRS
5 1 (11.11%) Front End Development
5 1 (11.11%) High Availability
5 1 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (11.11%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Python
1 6 (66.67%) TypeScript
2 1 (11.11%) Go
2 1 (11.11%) Java
2 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Degree
2 3 (33.33%) PhD
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Kubernetes
2 3 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Google
1 1 (11.11%) Solace